0:05

Sod: Hello. Hello, hello. Welcome back, everybody to uploading a

0:09

tech news and gaming website. A podcast fu Ooh, I fumbled

0:14

already. Oh, Silas: multiple times even because it's called uploaded.

0:19

Sod: upload. Yeah. Silas: And you said uploading

0:23

Sod: Well, I'm, I'm looking at all the things. It's a listed

0:25

uploading park. Oh yeah. That's why it's the old name. The old

0:32

name from the what's the old things that we are doing today?

0:36

What old things you might be asking? Well we, way back in

0:41

January, want to do a look back at the previous year of Episodes

0:47

we had done and because we make up documents for these and you

0:51

know, they're just kind of saved cuz they don't take up a lot of

0:54

space or not really delete anything. We just had the back

0:57

log of them. Were like, okay, we'll go over and select a few

0:59

ourselves, you know, and just do we again, you end with review of

1:04

what we previously done, but previous hectic things first

1:07

Percy carrying over and new stuff happening. Everything was just

1:10

kind of turbulent. And as you could probably see by, you know,

1:13

the podcast episodes where it's becoming a bit more sporadic.

1:17

Like we're still just trying to find a new groove. And so this

1:20

has been a can that's been repeatedly kicked down the road

1:24

and we finally thought Enough is enough. Let's at least get my

1:28

ones out and then we'll revisit Silas for another little bonus

1:33

episode. I will, I hopefully this will not be here as long as

1:38

normal ones. So it, it is just a little tidbit where we go back

1:42

over some previous stories we commented upon. So long running

1:46

fans. See if you can remember any of these as we go back over them.

1:50

Original, the original concept was, was each of us picks three

1:54

and then what's it Just like we'd do an episode again back in

1:57

January. We'll, we'll try and do that next January as well. We'll

2:03

see what happens. Hopefully it's only a month late next time.

2:08

That's significant improvement. Silas: Yeah, that would be fantastic. The way that this

2:13

normally works is normally, or at least it works for that like

2:16

month where we record an episode and then release it the same week

2:20

that we recorded it. But a lot of like random stuff just came

2:25

together. Yeah. Sod: yeah, like again, if you've been watching for the past couple

2:30

of months, or I should say listening, just a lot of

2:34

turbulent stuff happening on our life that had running effects and

2:37

then new stuff happening. And the main thing was the podcast,

2:42

especially back then, was recorded when Silas was still in

2:47

training as opposed to, you know, Actually having the proper job

2:52

that requires him to be there for like, how many hours a day?

2:55

Silas: I wanna say it I'll get shame from the Americans. Seven.

3:00

Sod: I mean, Americans are there for like, in terms of actual work

3:04

there that long. Wait, do you have a lunch break as well?

3:06

Silas: Well, okay. Seven hours is the actual work time plus 45

3:10

minutes. And then also it's, it's different shifts. So the, the

3:14

shift that starts at eight in the morning is you, we'll work like

3:19

eight or nine hours. Then that day, usually just like eight. So

3:24

we can stack up the overtime and then take more time off, which is

3:29

pretty good. But then, yeah, early shift is just seven hours

3:33

plus 45 minutes. Sod: So between like sickness, the new, what did work schedule

3:39

for Silas there, you Silas: Plus we had a special project, a big, big, like a mega

3:45

project at work at the start of the, the year, which took

3:50

basically a whole month. And then the whole schedule was different

3:53

and it more over time for that good bonus pay. But then, yeah,

4:00

that took a lot of time away. Sod: yeah, between all of that and trying to like figure out a

4:04

new schedule ourselves and trying to match with that. Basically the

4:08

podcasters I've seen a bit of a stagger recess with lately. And

4:11

of course we like always, were focusing a bit more on like

4:15

getting new stuff out. But again, like I said, enough was finally

4:19

enough. Topic number one of our old

4:21

Silas: I'm getting distracted. Distracted again.

4:24

Sod: Oh. Why are you gonna type in a three letter of word, the

4:28

Silas: No, no, no. But apparently Elon Musk changed the Twitter

4:31

logo to the Doge from Dogecoin. I can't see that, but apparently

4:36

he's done that. He's tweeted an image where there's a doge in a

4:39

car saying that's an old photo, and a cop next to the car looking

4:45

at like an ID with the Twitter logo on it.

4:47

Sod: What I Silas: and I see loads of people retweet, like tweeting, oh, shit

4:51

is changed. The Twitter logo to the Doge. And I'm like, what? I

4:55

can't see that. But Sod: No, I, I just refreshed it. I see it.

4:59

Silas: you see it. I don't see, I see it now as well. I refreshed

5:03

it like five times before this. In the past, like while you were

5:06

doing the intro, nine minutes. Oh my God. He's actually done it.

5:11

That's the life reaction. Caught on the, that's gonna be the

5:15

fucking trailer for this show. Sod: God. Damn it.

5:19

Silas: That is fantastic. That's amazing. You are fa well how to

5:27

get not get arrested for market manipulation. Ask Elon Musk

5:31

allegedly. Sod: Yeah, I'm just seeing that as well. What's it? Elon, the

5:35

do's father must ask judge to, to 258 billion racketeer lawsuit.

5:41

Yeah. As someone like did just street Ike. Why do I get the

5:44

feeling the Doge icon is added? So when you search Elon and dos,

5:49

the story of his racketeering lawsuit will be buried cuz Yeah.

5:53

He was heavily invested in that and like tweeting out repeatedly

5:57

to raise the value of the sock. I, oh my god. Best way for his to

6:02

respond, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Remember when Ima public

6:05

discrim against a disabled worker and then had to apologize, it

6:09

turned out firing the worker would cost them 100 million.

6:13

Since then, you know, it's been repeatedly making friendly

6:15

applies to the guy and the guy has never responded. Oh, that's

6:20

a, a call back a while ago. Silas: Oh my God.

6:24

Sod: Well, let's just say spend a minute to shit. Huntingdon Musk.

6:27

Let's see. So, so I am the two responsible for putting the Doge

6:32

on here. It was supposed to be for April Fools. We got

6:35

implemented late cause you kept emailing us to make it more epic

6:39

and we couldn't figure out what he meant. That comes from at LA

6:43

on Twitter. So thank you very much for that. Oh, breaking news.

6:47

Oh my God. Yeah. Everyone just started recording on this. I was

6:51

like it's, he actually did it. The crazy bass actually just

6:55

changed the local to the DEU coin to like cover up news about his

7:00

lawsuit. Because like I, I'm seeing like people, it is popping

7:03

up, so it's not working, but yeah. Breaking news in our bus

7:07

facing 258 billion racketeering lawsuit for as well, and running

7:12

a pyramid scheme to afford investors with dogecoin, eh, an

7:17

unregistered security. Yeah.

7:19

Silas: Why do people always use crypto for bad things? Because

7:22

they read it. Why use it for good things?

7:27

Sod: becs. It is, it's just not gonna fucking happen.

7:30

Silas: No, Sod: only way crypto is go, Silas: Nobody knows it though, because it's all fucking so many

7:36

scams. Stop being evil. You fucks

7:39

Sod: well, it's not evil, it's just the fundamental nature of

7:41

it. It's getting treated as a speculative investment as opposed

7:44

to an actual currency across the board. So it's like, yeah. The

7:49

only way crypto is gonna work is if like the, basically every

7:53

state currency just kind of converts to crypto down the line.

7:58

It's the only way it's gonna work is they, It'll be state backed

8:02

and they have to then watch it keeper the same fuckery from

8:05

happening prevent the same fuckery from happening that they

8:07

have when it was a paper form Yahoo News drop bombs wheels at

8:12

code just found. Thats downloading. Tweet about Ukraine

8:16

on Sweden. Keep my, my husband parroting prop Putin propaganda

8:19

ssap and blah, blah, blah. Yeah, that makes sense. As well as

8:22

what's it? Remember that whole SpaceX thing, you know, with the

8:25

satellite? I was like, okay, I gave this to you for fi for a

8:27

while, time to pull this back. And then people got mad him, so I

8:31

didn't do it. I just, oh yeah. And he was like, oh yeah,

8:36

companies will have to pay for what's at Twitter blue. And every

8:40

company was like, yeah, we're not paying you for this. No, no. Oh,

8:45

okay. Okay. Silas: up to a w so hard.

8:49

Sod: Yeah. Yeah. Silas: I still think there was a good way how to do ver like

8:55

verification per payment. Not for only being famous, but he's not

9:01

done that. Sod: President Joe Biden's broadband Bob Billions are

9:06

finally making their way to rural communities. That is topic number

9:10

one, I should have said, of our old retro things. So, I mean,

9:16

all, all this is like pretty good broadband connection is a pretty

9:20

important, it's astonishing how many people in America still

9:23

don't actually have it. And I believe I said way back when the

9:27

way actual people had broadband was counted, was absolute

9:31

nonsense. Basically, they s overestimated saying like, oh,

9:35

one person on the block has it. I guess the entire block must have

9:38

it. This because, like this connection there despite, you

9:41

know price limitations or just like, you know, any other gremlin

9:46

reasons. They may not have it. I don't know the proper word off

9:49

the top of my head here. Like maybe someone only has a personal

9:53

line or something. I don't know. That seems like some bougie

9:56

stuff, but who could say, Hmm. So silas is, what do you think?

10:02

Silas: It's one of those things where, I don't know how it turned

10:05

out. Do we know how it turned out? Or is that also one of those

10:07

things where it's not findable?

10:11

Sod: I, I tried for those listening at film, I tried to get

10:14

little update on all these soy, some of them not very good

10:17

things. Probably self evidently why they haven't been updated cuz

10:21

they've been nuked to orbit. But things like this, just like I

10:23

tried searching for like, news articles within the past month

10:27

and nothing, nothing. Maybe, maybe it was older by like three

10:33

months or six months or something. I don't know. This is

10:37

going to be a long-term project anyhow, like months in the

10:40

making. I think based on where this was from, we got this from

10:43

like probably like four or five months ago. So it still would, it

10:48

will be underway. Silas: yet. I don't think a lot happened yet, because that's

10:52

probably still like in the, the planning stage for how it will be

10:55

used. Sod: Well, no, it's like not used. It's just like give like

11:00

broadband rural areas, you know, the only thing I worry

11:04

Silas: Well, yeah, but how do you do that? Like, exactly where it

11:07

says 83,000 homes, but you all have to like get contractors into

11:14

lay the fucking cables and shit. I don't even think they've,

11:17

they've gone through that planning phase maybe, depending

11:21

how far back it is. Sod: but there is also the problem of like like I said

11:25

privately with. Basically anywhere like conservatives in

11:28

control of like state infrastructure like that, you

11:31

know, Silas: God. Sod: things on the state side, quite often they just will not

11:36

spend the money at tribute to them from the federal government

11:39

to make these social improvements. They will just as a

11:43

cult cultural issue, will just sit on the money or divert it to

11:47

other projects illegally. So it's like, yeah, that's, that's always

11:52

a fucking lynch that could be thrown into this machine here.

11:55

Just not spending the money or spending it on something else

11:59

unrelated, which would be really bad. Cause again, like the

12:04

internet is so essential for like, both leisure and work

12:07

nowadays. It's like, Silas: Yeah. Sod: again, these people should be getting it. Cause also like

12:14

once you have that infrastructure out in those areas, it's easier

12:17

to then expand further as these rise, you know, Anyhow. Any

12:22

further thoughts? Silas I'm just happy it is hopefully happening

12:26

unless like the, again, but Republican wild call happens.

12:31

It's just like a good thing that will dramatically improve lives

12:34

of like adults and kids, you know living in these rural areas, I

12:38

believe will mention the projects are happening in Kansas, Maine,

12:42

Maryland, and Minnesota. So hopefully they'll be enjoying the

12:45

high speed internet for gaming, streaming and all kinds of other

12:50

stuff very soon. Silas: Yeah. If you, if you are from those areas and you know

12:56

anything that's happened locally, we have an email address. You can

13:00

send us boosts and tweets, just tweet at us or whatever method

13:04

you want. I actually want to know if Sod: like emails. That would be nice if, you know, if you've seen

13:09

like, construction in your area if like something isn't

13:13

happening, you know, if there's like issues happening, we'll

13:15

mention next time. We'll record. Silas: Yeah, if, if they've like put up one building and it's like

13:20

empty now, but it has the name data center on it, like the, the

13:24

Wisconsin situation, the Foxcon, was it Foxcon? I think it was,

13:30

yeah. They've built this gigantic park and it's essentially just

13:33

empty. They've like got people to move out of the houses and bulls

13:37

everything down and they have like this dome shape, which is

13:42

apparently a data center, and then the rest is like basically

13:45

empty. Sod: They, that should be

13:49

Silas: They made a TV factory. Ooh.

13:52

Sod: force people, force people outta your house like that, just

13:54

to build an empty building, you should go to Silas: The fact that you can have a. Fucking article that says

14:01

Foxconn, mostly abandons. 10 billion Wisconsin Project. That's

14:05

mad already. That's insane. Good job. Donald Trump and, and

14:11

Foxconn for Sod: Yep.

14:14

Silas: having started. I guess Sod: Let now let it go.

14:17

Silas: on. Sod: CLIs. Silas: Fuck Sod: Close the tab. Topic number two. Amazon shows off Alexa

14:25

feature that mimics the voices of your dead relatives. Yep.

14:31

Nightmare Society fuel. I'm sure. The advancement in AI only makes

14:36

that even more haunt. Oh, goodness gracious. Given that we

14:41

have never seen this feature publicly released, it's safe to

14:44

assume after the negative publicity, this acquired acute, I

14:48

should say this feature was nuked from orbit, just completely and

14:52

utterly eviscerated never to see the light of day again. For very

14:56

good reason. This was nightmare fuel. Oh my God, thank goodness.

15:02

It is not going to happen because I just, again, like kids would

15:07

just never grieve for their parent parents or like

15:11

Silas: Yeah, I did not even think of that yet. Sod: It's like, yeah, yeah. They were just like, oh, yeah, let

15:16

Grandma read me a story. Give me a story. She lives in the machine

15:20

now. A ghost in the shell. Silas: What the hell? I mean, I know that they've done this with

15:25

like celebrity voices, which I think that's okay. That's cool.

15:30

Sod: Well, I, I don't know. I feel. will say if the celebrity

15:35

made it when they were alive, fair game, if it was like for

15:38

another system, but it has been adapted for like other products

15:41

and features, fine.

15:43

Silas: I think they Sod: like if you're using, Silas: Like they actually recorded stuff.

15:47

Sod: yeah, like that is fine. But like if they're using AI and like

15:50

ex just the library existing recordings to generate this, I

15:55

feel that should be illegal. Like if someone did not like, choose

15:59

to agree to such things in life, they, it cannot be made once they

16:03

have passed and thus have no, no longer have a say or becomes like

16:07

the estates decision, which is then a lot more susceptible to

16:11

paying out on these things because like the, it's run by the

16:15

kids who want to cash in on the parents not always have a, a

16:19

terribly bad thing for some things, you know, gotta make

16:21

money survive. But like for this, I think like it should be

16:26

outlawed if you don't do this when you're alive. Then too late

16:32

just move on to a new celebrity. You Silas: And if it's done with that, your consent as well.

16:37

Sod: That's why I'm saying like, that's why I'm saying like,

16:39

alive, Silas: Voice Act. Well, yeah. But I've seen this as a complainant

16:44

from voice actors where it's like, I've never given these

16:48

people permission to make fucking videos with my voice in it. This

16:52

is literally my job, and it is like people making YouTube clips

16:55

with like fake Dr. Eggman voices and it just sounds good and

16:59

realistic and everything. And Mike Pollocks, he, he

17:02

specifically, he's mad about it. I've not seen a lot of other

17:05

ones, but he's like very much against people just making shit

17:09

up with his voice. Sod: well, that, I feel like those, like on a mean scale,

17:17

that's like the only time you can really do it. But like, again,

17:20

like specifically like again, if, so, if Amazon was like, okay,

17:24

Alexa speak like Dr. Inman. And use that like exact same ai, like

17:30

that's a problem that should be Silas: It's a problem for the meme stuff as well though,

17:34

because they, it sounds so realistic. You can make him say

17:38

everything. Sod: I guess, but you could

17:42

Silas: stuff before it was like, yeah, edit it together, but you

17:45

would know that it's like bullshit that he didn't say some

17:50

controversial thing. I've done this with the AI thing that's

17:56

indescript, where I have a model of my own voice, not of sod,

17:59

because he doesn't, he hasn't given permission, so there's none

18:02

off side's voice, which is probably better, but like, yeah,

18:07

you could make it say some mad shit and it's like, yeah, it's,

18:11

it's pretty Sod: I would say,

18:14

Silas: scary. Sod: I would say, like when I say meme stuff, it's, it would just

18:18

be like very silly or like a copy pasta going about, well actually

18:22

no even then cuz like it's would take away the

18:24

Silas: fucked up. Copy pasts. Sod: Well, there's also pretty funny ones like that. Snake about

18:30

his, what's it? His, his cheeks are so dummy thick. He keeps

18:32

alerting the guards. They funny. But the actual voice actor did

18:36

then record that, which was special.

18:40

Silas: But that's with the voice actor though. Sod: Yeah. no, no, he didn't record for the ai. He, he just

18:45

recorded the, the meme, Silas: that's what I mean. He controlled what he said though.

18:50

That's not the same as, oh, this technology is out there. And

18:53

literally anyone can make a voice model of any person without their

18:57

knowledge that is really bad. Very, very bad. And we know that

19:03

there's people literally getting scammed already because someone

19:07

made up an AI voice that sounds like their child that's happening

19:11

Sod: Oh Silas: We can make a fucking voice model of sword without him

19:17

knowing and then call fucking fine to his, like, landlord is,

19:21

or some shit, or internet provider and cancel it with some

19:25

more information. Or like your boss or something. Say, say some

19:29

nasty shit to your boss with some Digg. In your voice. That's

19:35

Sod: disability allowance. I don't have a boss.

19:37

Silas: okay, but for every other person, that's also possible.

19:40

Sod: Yeah, that that, okay. We should

19:43

Silas: There has to be more legislation. But like technology,

19:47

once again, it moves too fast. For Sod: Well, no, this, this isn't, this is silence. I'm going

19:52

completely dispell you of that illusion while, like, again, like

19:56

this super good stuff is like new, like this has been a

20:00

feasible thing that scam artists could have pulled off with. Like,

20:04

what's the technology For a while now, at least like the past five

20:08

years, all they would have to do is say like okay. Yeah. The

20:11

connection's a bit bad. And like that would kind of cover up some

20:14

of the more rough edges of it. But like it, this has been a

20:18

feasible thing for the last five years. And like lawmakers are

20:21

just old as fuck and do not comprehend like technology that

20:27

they use every day, let alone cutting edge stuff that they are

20:31

in charge of fucking legislating.

20:33

Silas: but like I think it's gotten way better though

20:36

literally before you needed like a gigantic computer rack and now

20:40

you need 30 seconds of audio and you can use like a website that's

20:43

made for it. Sod: I know, but like Silas, my point is like, this has existed

20:48

out in a while. For now it's become much more efficient and

20:52

possible for the average layman to do. But it's been about, and

20:55

there hasn't been legislation to like, make this illegal there. I

20:59

say that's part, part of the problem. Cause this hasn't been

21:03

effectively, what's it legislated against in its infancy? It's

21:06

grown into a wild beast. We cannot control, Ugh.

21:12

Silas: That's kind of a downside, isn't it?

21:15

Sod: there probably should be retirement ages for you know,

21:20

for, what's it, legislative bodies, judges, et cetera. Just

21:24

to like, if they're going to be in charge of making this

21:27

legislation, they can't be above a certain age. And also like,

21:31

they just be like in America, there's like I don't know what it

21:33

was, but like kinda like education service for like

21:37

members of Congress and whatnot to make sure they were informed

21:40

our topic. Cuz like, it makes sense, like obviously like in

21:44

democracy, you know, it's just like anyone and everyone can get

21:48

elected. You just have to like convince people of that. But

21:51

obviously under the circumstances you're not gonna get, not

21:55

everyone can know everything and sometimes like a person may have

21:58

like good politics, but like be something of a dumb ass that

22:02

needs to be educated, you know, in terms of like actually

22:06

effectively legislating things. But that was gutted years ago. I

22:11

think that, and like the time in ages for these and like the

22:15

fifties would be ideal to ensure people are young enough, sharp

22:20

enough, and able to learn to effectively legislate against

22:24

these things across the globe. It's just, especially in America,

22:28

it's real bad. Fucking like it's a learning joke, an open joke

22:34

right now that what's at the house is basically a time home

22:38

cuz so many people are in the seventies or eighties or even

22:41

nineties. It's just like, it's unreal Like that. All of those

22:46

are too old. Those are too old. Like from, from before I was

22:50

born. The same generation of politicians are still in charge

22:53

there, or like still in circulation in the house and

22:57

Senate today. Like Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi Mitchell, Nell, all

23:04

of them were there before I was alive and are still there al like

23:08

25 years later. It's a problem. Anywho as sa does want to do, I

23:16

want on a politics event, I, at least I'm self-aware about it.

23:20

Sorry guys. Hmm. Anywho tying into our hate of El our Musk

23:28

earlier. Topic number three. This says SpaceX manipulated tests and

23:33

lie to customers about 5g interference. Just give myself a

23:40

refresher. Let's just read like the first paragraph here. And

23:44

this says, SpaceX has been lying to customers about how, how to

23:47

plan to expand the u, the use of certain airways. So 5g could

23:52

disrupt its stall link interface from space services. SpaceX sent

23:57

a manipulated filing to the Federal Communications

24:00

Commissions in attempt to prove the expanded 5G usage would lead

24:03

to substantial interference right rights dish, and a group of other

24:07

companies known as the 5G for 12 KZ Coalition. They write that

24:12

SpaceX conducting a public misinformation campaign against

24:16

5g. Hmm hmm. Public intimate misinformation you say, from the

24:24

owner of Twitter who changed the icon of Twitter to the Dogecoin

24:30

dog. Just as news drops about his lawsuit, about like running a

24:36

Ponzi scheme or pen, a pyramid scheme with Dogecoin, you know, a

24:41

lawsuit about that comes up in public news misinformation. Who

24:47

would've thought it's almost a pattern of behavior from somebody

24:52

who just lucked out by being born rich af and just stumbled in all

24:56

to the light positions to get even richer. Silas: Ah, well, yeah.

25:03

Sod: still the Dogecoin. It's still the Dogecoin dog. Ah,

25:07

Silas: Thankfully he is African and can't be US president because

25:12

of that, because he is not born in the us. I think that's a

25:16

requirement. Sod: I would say that's somewhat ify. I would say American

25:22

citizens should be the only restriction. As opposed to board

25:26

in the us That's a bit, you know, target my collar. But yeah, I

25:31

just really, it would be awful if he was president and did I say

25:35

it? I don't think that's gonna stop him. If he, he, if he

25:40

becomes that interested, they will probably, he'll probably

25:43

just like Silas: Yeah. You have Sod: what's it lobby? Silas: citizen. A

25:46

Sod: No, he'll Silas: born citizen. Sod: yeah. Again, I would say it should be citizenship just like

25:51

morally and ethically, despite how much I hate Elon Musk. But

25:55

ironically enough, he will fucking lobby the Congress and

25:58

Senate to amend that restriction. If he actually does want to run

26:02

for president, like that's, he will just do that

26:06

Silas: has there actually been more updates on Dish in general

26:10

for Dish Network? Because I don't think we've had that on the show

26:14

again. And I, I have not heard of that on other podcasts.

26:19

Sod: Well, I, I think just like 5G 5G is just becoming more of

26:23

more popular, you know? Silas: Yeah, but

26:27

Sod: Ha, Silas: because they're a new carrier and they did mad dumb

26:35

shit and interesting things, but

26:37

Sod: you wanna just look up and see if the sim business or. It's

26:40

funny, I even talk about China and banning TikTok have zero

26:43

problems either Musk using trip to manipulate the crypto markets

26:46

that he absolutely did do before buying it. Remember when this

26:50

this one crypto takes another hit and they blame liberalism? Biden?

26:54

No. It's people like Elon using it as a Ponzi scheme. It's,

26:58

that's it. Silas: Oh my God. Sod: Oh my God. Twitter jump Doran jumps after Twitter

27:03

switches it out out its bird love. Go for Shiba inu image. Oh

27:09

my God. It jumped by 30%.

27:11

Silas: Yeah, it did. Yeah. I think more at

27:14

Sod: Oh. Jesus Christ. Silas: that's one of the parts of crypto that I don't like that

27:18

much. There's many cool projects, but if you try to talk to someone

27:23

about, like anything, it's like, no, that's probably a scam. And

27:28

I'm like, no, I've used this for five fucking years. I don't, it's

27:32

not, it doesn't do this. The owners are not evil. It's not

27:36

like, Sod: well that's apo. It doesn't matter what the owners are like.

27:40

If like everybody uses a spec of investment that they are just

27:43

gambling on getting really big before dumping it, it's like

27:46

never gonna be a stable currency. Silas: But the things that I like are not like that because they

27:51

have actual use cases, like the one that I have you pay for with

27:55

their currency for their own special network to do video work,

27:59

like live streams and video encoding and stuff like that. You

28:04

can't have that when the prize changes between, oh I code a

28:09

video. Now it's 10 cents, but tomorrow it's gonna be $20.

28:12

That's dumb, that's stupid. Sod: Yep.

28:16

Silas: And that hasn't happened. And also, fuck this, I don't care

28:19

about Dish Network again anymore because I went to this one new

28:23

site and it says, access denied. Cool.

28:26

Sod: Delight. I'll just make the mind that ation started because

28:30

of St. Louis Cardinal's manager, Tony Laa, who sued Twitter

28:35

because he was being impersonated on the platform. It was never

28:37

intended to be solely about internet cloud. Yeah. It's just

28:42

like, again, the meme is will meme, but that could get you in a

28:46

lot of trouble if like they, if there's no distinguisher between

28:49

them. But you can't really stop the meemers from multiple, like

28:53

first Amendment reasons. So you can just like verify the actual

28:57

person to ensure like, okay, yeah, that's the real one. So

29:01

nothing else about this would be levied against them. Let's move

29:08

on. God, I I fairly do hate. Twitter is like so important for

29:14

like, so many people's jobs, get so many great memes and pieces

29:18

out on there, and I, it it's just able to be bought up like one of

29:21

the richest people in the world and just like made substantially

29:25

worse for the own amusement. The topic number four, Michigan man

29:32

builds own i s p gets 2.6 million. Im government to expand.

29:38

Delightful. Silas: That's just a cool story.

29:42

Sod: Yeah, that's, that's why I picked this one. It was just really nice. This is like one of the real nice ones I want to see

29:47

more of. Crop Silas: There's one of those things where that makes me go

29:50

like, America, fuck

29:52

Sod: fuck yeah, Silas: really cool.

29:55

Sod: it is. So I'll little bit a little bit blurb to my fe

29:59

ourselves. A good interconnection is just as important as water and

30:02

power to your home. Some remote users may choose starlink other

30:06

than a 5G option, but even if you have no viable options, a comma

30:11

network architect Jed March was so frustrated with the mainstream

30:15

i p s offerings at his AUR home in Michigan. They set up his own

30:19

FTT h fiber to the home i s p. It has been such a resounding

30:25

success that other rural folks have joined up. The with Fiber

30:29

properties. L l C for the internet provider, moreover, much

30:34

has now qualified for a 2.6 million in government funding and

30:39

will be able to reach nearly 600 further homes in sparing.

30:42

Populated was, have you answered country area airports are

30:47

technica. That that's just really nice. That's really nice. And

30:52

again, it kind of, kind of points to an issue like with like

30:57

everything being a mega corporation. Like obviously they

31:01

are not going to spend the money to maintain these things. They

31:06

are interested in making the most profit profitable with like this

31:09

least money possible. And this will just completely ignore some

31:13

areas, even if it's like profitable cuz it's not

31:16

profitable enough. You know, the, they still make money but they

31:19

don't want to invest in it cuz it won't be enough money. So it's

31:23

like I dare say this is nice. I did, I think I did say this

31:26

before. I'll say it again. Like, this should just be a public

31:30

utility at this point and not run by public private corporations.

31:34

Like even this still is, but as long as this still is a

31:37

situation, this is a very heartwarming story. I'm glad so

31:41

many people are getting fiber connections. They're so important

31:45

in this day and age. And if for the thoughts thoughts from

31:48

yourself, Silas. Silas: I mean, it's it's worked before in, in well, not really.

31:56

The, the, the nationalization of things has worked before in many

31:59

cases. Sometimes you have to do it. I know a lot of people don't

32:02

like that word a lot. But for some

32:06

Sod: I mean, a part of it is like, Silas: idea if it's run by the correct people, which is

32:11

sometimes it's not. But yeah, it can be a very good thing. And

32:16

Sod: part of the problem is, is like, Yeah, rich people have just

32:20

kind of like lobbied like education and just the government

32:25

a as a whole to like make it such a de a dirty term, you know, like

32:31

it goes deep into what's it what's it like the politics

32:35

behind the education system and what thats of school books. We

32:39

could see it like more plainly with like the recent book

32:42

Bannings in Florida after the don't say gay bill and like just

32:47

libraries being left empty. You know, we could see like politics

32:51

has a massive impact on what like kids can learn and there's some

32:56

stuff they probably should be learning there is just left out

33:00

based on the political agents in charge in a given area or in the

33:05

US property, which is just not good, you know. And yeah, like

33:12

the don't say gay bill is the most advert example of it, but

33:16

there's honestly like, like a lot of shady but more subtle stuff

33:21

been going on for decades. Whereas what's it like a, a good

33:26

example is like their civil war mostly, you know, just slavery.

33:33

But like a lot of people in the south are taught that it was

33:36

actually for states rights first and foremost. Kinda kind of suss,

33:41

dare say, you know, like the part of the comp country that try to

33:48

what's it succeed succeed from the US to maintain slavery,

33:54

basically has like cross the board insisted that the civil War

33:58

happened cuz they want to maintain state, right? And not

34:02

keep the slaves, you know It, it just falls back into a lot of

34:05

like in this instance like deep history within America, but just

34:08

like, again, the politics that goes into the education system,

34:13

like it's just not apolitical and you kind of have to fight to make

34:17

sure it's like as good as it can possibly be, cuz like there will

34:21

be bad actors behind the scenes that want to manipulate and warp

34:26

it to their own ends. Cuz again, you get them on the young for

34:30

like believing certain ideologies. Again, teaching kids,

34:34

it was actually about state lights, kind of primes them for,

34:37

you know to fall into certain light leaning ideologies. Whether

34:43

it's like tepid or fright, it's like kind of priming them at a

34:47

young age. Anywho, I think that's it for that one. All I have to

34:52

really say. Silas: Yeah, move

34:56

Sod: Let us move on to topic number five,

34:58

Silas: on. Sod: the one I hate so much and relevant to current real life

35:04

issues over in France. Well, topical will say, topical topic

35:12

number five, France's Linguistic Watch jog issues, edict. It's not

35:16

eSports, it's J Video Competition. Frances and National

35:23

Linguistic War Jogs, the academy of, or have you pronounce, that

35:28

has banned use of a number of faces borrowed from the English

35:32

from English to describe the world of gaming. Instead of

35:35

eSports government workers should refer to blah, blah, blah.

35:38

Instead of pro gamers, they must discuss the activity as jeano

35:42

professor. Instead of streamers, they must refer to Jean and

35:47

mature. And mature indirect. That's. That's so many more

35:52

syllables. That's so many more words like that. Again, again,

35:59

that that's always been like a suss thing. Like you don't have

36:02

that in America. You don't to have any No,

36:07

Silas: I think it's great. It's really funny, Sod: no. Side

36:12

Silas: I think that's pretty funny. Sod: side. I need you. I need you to be clear. Do you think it's

36:15

funny or do you think like this is a good thing for Society of

36:19

France? Silas: I don't think it's a bad thing because people can still

36:23

say what they want, except if you work as government officials.

36:28

Sod: Well, that's again, again, it's a suss thing. You know? It's

36:33

a suss thing. Silas: They just like the language. I don't think this is

36:38

evil or bad. Like why?

36:41

Sod: because it's like tried to, what's it? Prevent any outside

36:45

infl influence, maintain the purity of it. And like that leads

36:50

to some suss things down the road if you keep going down that line.

36:54

If in terms of politics broadly, so I maintain the purity of your

37:00

national identity kind of becomes an issue, especially as you're

37:04

like blame outside influences for its corruption and degradation.

37:10

Like, Silas: Okay. Using it badly, using the tool of language badly

37:16

is obviously not good, but I

37:18

Sod: well, it's not just language, I, it's not language.

37:20

It's like the broad, the broad way you're going about this for

37:25

this specific thing, but like, it doesn't come in a vacuum. Like

37:30

you, you install such a thing. Cuz broadly the political

37:34

landscape of power in a certain country such as. Is leaning a

37:39

certain way and has certain ideologies that I find

37:43

problematic that if left unchecked will lead to some bad

37:48

things. Like it, it's, it's a canary in a coal mine for me. You

37:53

know, it's not like everything's dropping dead yet. It's just the

37:58

canary that's gone Silas: And how long have they had this? Since when is the this

38:03

economy exists? Sod: a while, but it's like, again, it's just not one of those

38:10

things I trust, Silas: If it's like a hundred years old, I'm like, it's fine.

38:14

They're not dead yet or evil. Sod: no, the sad, it's like slavery was a hundred years old.

38:20

We just didn't keep it about for the sake of it. It's like,

38:24

sometimes things are just bet off if they go away. This isn't like

38:28

Silas: is completely fine. Sod: It's not, it's not, this isn't like the Oxford Dictionary,

38:34

which is just a company that prints dictionaries and keeps

38:37

track of words. This is a government body that probably

38:41

should be done away with in the 21st century. Cuz again, it's

38:46

just like, you don't see this in America. We don't have that in

38:50

America or in Germany or in Ireland or in the uk.

38:53

Silas: know if you have that in Germany. You definitely have your own English form stuff and your own words, and you'll get mocked

38:59

if you say football for the wrong stuff.

39:04

Sod: well, that's a, like, that's an ensu, that's an egos

39:07

idiosyncrasy. But I'm talking about like different languages

39:10

here. Like the influence, the influence of different languages

39:14

within like English or what's it German or what's it? Spanish Like

39:19

some words just like vela, a French word. Just make it into

39:23

everyday dialect in America. Cuz it's a nice word that people like

39:28

to, It happens quite often. The what's it use of the simple,

39:32

straightforward streamers into multiple languages just kind of

39:38

makes sense. It's a straightforward, simple word that

39:41

covers it effectively. And like seeking to ban that, to maintain

39:45

the national purity of your language is sussy behavior.

39:50

Silas: Germany has a similar thing, or German as a language

39:55

with Austria, Switzerland Belgium how do you say that in English?

40:01

Liechtenstein. Lichtenstein, I don't know Luxembourg as well.

40:06

Sod: I think. Yeah, I think I noticed like the trend there of

40:08

like languages that will contained within like a single

40:12

country that don't ha travel fall outside of it. Whereas like

40:15

Silas: Well, no, that's all the ones that are for the German,

40:18

what is it called? An English does have an English page. I

40:21

don't want to think. The Council of the German Ortho Orthography,

40:26

that's what it's called for German Sod: That's weird. Like

40:31

Silas: and that's all the members of it. Sod: don't, you don't see this like for Spain or Mexico or,

40:36

what's it? America and what's it? Canada. Ireland, uk. There's just

40:41

like no centralized hub like that. Hoo. I think that's about

40:47

it. Now, again, like voila, it's, it's commonly used. It's in the

40:52

dic, English dictionaries as well. It's just been adopted into

40:56

language suspended foreign origins. And instead of doing

40:59

that with like streamer or eswa and fans, it's like specifically

41:03

being fought against. It's weird

41:07

Silas: it is weird. Yes, I agree with that part.

41:12

Sod: and Silas: I don't think they want to kill everyone who doesn't speak

41:16

French though, which is what it sounds like. What

41:19

Sod: I, Silas: it out to be Sod: not in of itself straight away, I just think it's like

41:25

something that kind of enables these things down the line. You

41:30

know? Silas: Yes. Sod: I'm not saying like, again, you got your German what's it,

41:35

sorry? French Nazi just waiting to kill whatever in charge of

41:39

this specific agency in France. But again, it's just like a weird

41:44

thing that kind of just like enables, you know, certain

41:49

ideologies, tote and exist within fans that if given enough

41:55

limelight could become a major problem down the road.

42:00

Silas: Okay, well we're gonna end the show now. Hopefully,

42:05

Sod: Yep. Silas: I'm gonna edit it in some way that I will succeed as the

42:11

winner of this conversation as well. No, that's not true.

42:14

Sod: Yeah. Side. That's, don't joke about that

42:17

Silas: not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. Sod: Oh, the

42:21

Silas: I'll use ai. So, so says yes, Silas, you are correct. I

42:26

apologize for having disagreed with you. Sod: I'll find you. find you. You can't hide from me if you do

42:34

that. Silas: yeah, I'll send you my ID card for verification so you can

42:39

verify that it's me. Sod: like effing homicide.

42:43

Silas: And then in Germany at least it has your address on the

42:47

ID card. So then, you know, You have my address already. That's

42:52

bullshit. Anyways, you actually know where I am. Sod: Yep. Because I can mail stuff to you.

42:57

Silas: That's that's fantastic. Yeah. Don't send No, don't send

43:04

weird shit. Well follow the podcast. Uploaded Tech news

43:10

commentary. Uploaded pod on Twitter, that's the name. I think

43:14

Instagram you have as well. I've not done anything on there ever

43:18

Sod: We have a link tree that you can find all the, what's it

43:21

places this podcast is on, on various platforms and also all on

43:25

personal link trees for Silas and Mesad, for all our various

43:28

YouTubes and twitches and gaming channels. Well, s just me.

43:33

Anyhow, I hope you all have a fantastic whatever time of day it

43:38

is that you're listening this at. So it's time first and it's time

43:41

for us to say a Tata Viza til we meet again. Byebye Myk, and also

43:48

a viza, another example of like a word being adopted into English

43:52

language. It's just Silas: I hate words that I'm not German. That's not true. I've

44:00

never said YouTube in my life

44:04

Sod: you, you literally just said Silas: or Windows or like Twitter. Is Twitter a real word?

44:13

Sod: I, it's a name. So it's kind of just fallen into being real.

44:16

Silas: what does it mean? Sod: Twitter, it's a website. It's a name. It is a name. Like

44:22

it's just the name you put. You could put any nonsense together

44:26

and make up a name. That's just how it works,

44:29

Silas: Oh, it means the same as Chap. So I thought that was

44:33

correct. That's what I thought. Okay. Yeah.

44:37

Sod: I guess. Yeah, I guess I had heard the phrase like birds

44:39

twittering about the place, but I use it so infrequently or

44:43

Silas: Well, Sod: I say never. So yeah, anyhoo. Bye. Have a great,

44:51

whatever time it is. See ya.

44:54

Silas: Don't forget to give us five stars or whatever you wanted

44:57

to give us. Sod: And of course,

44:59

Silas: I'm scared. Sod: and oh, call back early if you have any updates about what

45:03

was it those stories we mentioned that's pull up the

45:07

Silas: You don't even remember. Neither do I. That's fine. They

45:10

hopefully will. Sod: I just, I'm confused. This exec, I remember it was like the

45:16

first two that we wanted update. No, that and the Wisconsin one

45:20

with the Fox do. And yeah, like the, there we are. The Joe

45:24

Biden's bins. Yeah. The American Rescue Plans coronavirus Capital

45:29

Projects Fund. If you've seen a construction for that going about

45:34

the place, be sure to email us or what's at the Fox dome that has

45:37

been left empty. If you have any local updates for that, by

45:41

chance, let us know. Silas: Bye.

45:44

Sod: Bye. Silas: Oh, oh no. Did I delete something? What happened?

46:00

Sod: Yeah, just control Z

46:04

Silas: I did that. Oh, is it back?

46:09

Sod: Yes, I think so. Yeah. Why the fuck did you do that? Just.

46:14

Silas: I pressed escape because I had an accidentally, I selected

46:17

everything from before and I pressed escape and I pressed

46:21

something else as well.